DETROIT (AP) - A state prison on Detroit's east side will be reopened as a temporary detention center for anyone arrested in the city.
Mayor Dave Bing's office says the summer opening of the Mound Correctional Facility will free up about 40 police officers for street patrols. It was closed by the state in January 2012.
Officers currently are assigned to five police lockup facilities and a holding unit at Detroit Receiving Hospital where people who are arrested are held until their arraignments. Prisoners then are released to the Wayne County sheriff's office.
Bing's office says the five police lockups will be closed and that the Mound facility will hold up to 200 people.
The city launched an initiative last month that focuses on crime hot spots, drug arrests and enforcing traffic laws.
